Federal Aviation Administration Presented at:Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather By:Tom Bond, FAA Aircraft Icing Technical Advisor Date:November 19, 2015 Location:Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV Acknowledgements: Contributions by Stephanie DiVito, Chris Dumont, and Jim Riley FAA Technical Center and Tom Ratvasky NASA Glenn Research Center 2015 Ice Crystal Icing Research Status Report: ICI Field Campaigns and NASA DC-8 WXR Research Federal Aviation Administration Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather November 19, 2015 Icing Crystal Icing (ICI) Field Campaigns Current lack of knowledge of ice crystal properties and mechanics of formation and extinction. Atmospheric research is needed in support of ice crystal engineering standards and simulation methods for MOC Atmospheric research is needed in support of mitigation strategies for the current fleet On-board awareness technologies: reactive detection for identify and exit and on-board radar capability to identify ICI Ice crystal weather tools development for diagnosing, nowcasting, and forecasting in support of avoidance strategies 2 HAIC-HIWC Collaboration European Commission High Altitude Ice Crystal and North American- Australian High Ice Water Content international collaboration to conduct atmospheric characterization of icing crystal icing (ICI) conditions Federal Aviation Administration Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather November 19, Coordination resources Common regulatory and science objectives Data sharing and analysis Number of Flights:23 Number of flights with Appendix D/P cloud measurements: 16 Number of Oceanic MCS flights: 14 (88%) Number Continental MCS flights: 2 (22%) Number Isolated Cumulonimbus: 0 Number of Segments:157 Total Distance in Segments (nm): 7648 Avg. length of Segment (nm):36.5 HAIC-HIWC Darwin Field Campaign (Jan-Mar 2014) Federal Aviation Administration Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather November 19, 2015 SAFIRE Falcon 20GF 4 2D-S (10-100m) PIP (100m-6.2mm) IKP2 (0 - 9g/m^3) CDP2 (2 50 m) RASTA RADAR Primus 660 RADAR Hot wire Probe Robust Probe Federal Aviation Administration Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather November 19, 2015 Darwin Field Campaign ICI Research Flights FS F/H Flight in system located North/West of Broome. 6 legs performed at FL310 / - 30C with sustained IWC at 1.0g/m3 and peaks from 1.5g/m3 to 2.5g/m3 (1 peak). 5 Federal Aviation Administration Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather November 19, 2015 HAIC-HIWC Cayenne Field Campaign (May 2015) 6 SAFIRE Falcon 20 aircraft equipped with active remote sensing (airborne Doppler cloud radar) and in situ microphysics probes sample data at -50C & -10C Flight Levels NRC Convair 580 aircraft equipped with active remote sensing (airborne Doppler cloud radar) and in situ microphysics probes sample data at -10C Flight Level Honeywell B757 aircraft equipped with enhanced weather radar (WXR) to validate radar ice crystals awareness functions using other A/C in-situ measurements Conduct a 3 weeks field campaign out of Cayenne, French Guyana to collect data in deep convective clouds. Satellite, and weather models & nowcasting tools used to determine test areas and to support post-test data analysis Federal Aviation Administration Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather November 19, 2015 Cayenne Field Campaign Summary 19 flights performed 1 A/C = 5 flights 2 A/C = 8 flights 3 A/C = 6 flights Partition of flight hours 7 Data Analysis ongoing Should have enough -10C data for regulatory purposes Still need more -50C data Federal Aviation Administration Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather November 19, 2015 NASA ICI Flight Research - On-Board Wx Radar Project 8 Southern Florida; August Goal: Develop WXR to identify HIWC conditions ahead of an aircraft Approach: acquire pilot weather radar data in MCS along with corresponding in-situ cloud physics data Data used to characterize response radar and develop and test HIWC identification algorithms Data augment database for Appendix D regulations and for certification and MOC Federal Aviation Administration Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather November 19, 2015 NASA DC-8 Instrumentation 9 2D-S (10-100m) PIP (100m-6.2mm) IKP2 (0 - 9g/m^3) CDP2 (2 50 m) RDR-4000 RADAR Heated TAT and pitot collect ice Federal Aviation Administration Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather November 19, 2015 Concluding Remarks HAIC-HIWC international field campaigns: yielded extensive datasets; data now being processed and archived Working to complete common analysis methodology Completion of Darwin and Cayenne data by March 2016 Campaigns have provided substantial information to support evaluation for mitigation strategies of current fleet operations in high altitude ICI Cockpit cues On-board awareness technologies detection and radar Ice crystal weather tools development and evaluation NASA on-board radar project:acquired substantial data with range and duration on NASA DC-8. Data extensive and of high quality. Processing and analysis of data just starting Next steps: determine ability to adapt current on-board weather radar to provide useful information for avoidance 10